Backup, Sync, and Transfer Contacts on LG Rumor Touch for Free!

Common Problem!

Until today, I had not yet found a contact backup app for the LG Rumor Touch.

Since I'm with Virgin Mobile, I had one official choice to backup my contacts : Contact Vault.

Now, I have lost my contacts before due to freak phone accidents, and I value backing contacts up for future emergencies. I have (for two months now) paid Virgin Mobile $1.99 a month for Contact Vault.

What I do not like about Contact Vault is that I do not have any export options from the website where my contacts are "vaulted". I'm sure this is for the app's "job security", as it limits you to exporting ONLY to their vault and importing ONLY from their vault to your phone.

4. The first time I did this, I had to grant access each time it send a contact (which was really annoying), but I'm sure there is a way around this. It was successful, however, and I now have all of my contacts backed up to a file and to the Outlook on my PC.

5. See my hub on BlueFTP for a fabulous file manager and bluetooth transfer client for regular files.

I have lost my contact 2weeks and some days ago but i don't no how to restores them back please help to restores them thanks .

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Dana Rock 5 years agofrom Pacific Northwest

Yah, they do not really know anything unless you go through like four or five levels of techs....

Max 5 years ago

Sending by Bluetooth from my Rumor Touch to Optimus Elite was so easy! And the VM customer rep said there was no way to transfer contacts! What an idiot!

Gushwa 5 years ago

As Motaz suggested below, You can Bluetooth Pair the RT, to your new phone (mine Moto Triumph), recive entire file to your SD card, then Import to new phone, from SD card. SUCCESS!

PS;WEHW, That was a challenge, cause I didn't know how, and just applied common sense!

MoTaz 5 years ago

A real easy solution to this problem is to connect the LG Rumor and your new phone via bluetooth. Go to contacts select more then Send Contact then select all,continue, and select your new device in the list of devices.

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Dana Rock 6 years agofrom Pacific Northwest

@Rfet, hmmm, you can try uninstalling and reinstalling and see if that makes a difference.

As to the touch issue, if your phone is less than a year old, you should ge twarrenty service from the manufacturer.

RFet 6 years ago

I get a "ERROR javax.microedition.pim.PIMException: List not available" when attempting to start JContactBackup. It does not bring up anything but this error message upon startup. The message appears in a smaller Black background box with the rest of the window being Gray. I have loaded / reloaded this program several times in the past and tried but same issue. I have downloaded the 'Good' 'Fixed' zip file and have both programs in the APPS directory. Other downloads seem to work fine.

Another issue is that this LG's Touch Screen has lamination separation and the 'touch' ability is gone so it only displays - I am therefor limping along with only the keypad and many of the lower level 'on/off' type on-screen menus are unaccessable from the keyboard. So I can not turn on 'Bluetooth' or even the Sprint Wireless Backup. Probably should have posted the Error message sooner.

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Dana Rock 6 years agofrom Pacific Northwest

@Meli, no, there is no J-break. You just uncover a hidden menu. Virgin Mobile does this with other phones too like the LG Optimus V and its mobile hotspot button.

As to assuming you are clueless - I'll need some specific questions on what you are struggling with. The main hub that talks about the process of installing apps is below:

And if that does not answer your questions, then you can email me at ireadyourblogs@gmail.com and I'll do my best to help you out.

You can also look up LG Rumor Touch Hack Central on Facebook and talk to me from there.

meIi 6 years ago

hey dana, do you have to j-break the rumor touch to use most of the apps you offer/suggest? and would it be possible for you to assume we are actually completely clueless...because there are so many details missing for me when i read your articles;) p.s. nice avatar

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Dana Rock 6 years agofrom Pacific Northwest

@David, use JContact Backup. Its just as good as contact vault and free. And Google Sync will only erase your contacts if you have no contacts in Gmail, as it syncs gmail contacts to your phone ---- not vice versa. Sorry you had a bad experience.

David 6 years ago

Warning, GoogleSync erases all the contacts on your phone, even if you tell it not to! Don't ask how I know. Because of that I'm going to use ContactVault from now on.

Graceyfox 6 years ago

Can somebody please tell me how to use the J contact backup please? I have the app but how do I get my contacts?

I just got a replacement phone and don't want to manually transfer 600 numbers. Please Help me??

Ric 6 years ago

Cool got Jcontactbackup working..... I'm lovin it.... I will mark this site.... a lot of good tips

Ric 6 years ago

Nevermind Dana.... I see upon further investigation that it is an archive format.... I will investigate further to de-compress it.

Thanks

Ric 6 years ago

Sorry Dana I am new to this phone and unknowledeable. JContactbackup is a .jar file. Do I copy this to my brew directory on the massage storage and run the app on the phone? I understand the part about exporting to the mass storage device.

Niki 6 years ago

I just tried out JContactBackup and it worked perfectly!

Thanks again for taking the time to maintain such helpful info for Virgin cell phones owners. I was torn between the LG Rumor Touch and the Samsung Intercept, and so far I'm just loving this phone more and more after finding great info like yours.

Bri 6 years ago

jcontactbackup for vm510 worked like a charm.

Thanks!

MagneticMike 6 years ago

I agonized over a workable solution to this, was able to purchase a VM Samsung Intercept, (android) after accidentally giving my Rumor touch a bath - ruining the keyboard. When I finally thought to link the two units together by bluetooth I was prompted to import contacts? Yipee, of course I said "Click" and vcards were automatically created, sent and received. I am sorry i signed up for Contact Vault, not that's its so expensive, just that i didn't think of the other solution first.

Carl 6 years ago

Thanks, Dana! Your posts and apps for the Rumor Touch were the reason I decided to buy one and try VM again. The Google Sync and Gcal went off without a hitch!

Cheers!

Ben 6 years ago

Agreed with Joseph above. Export your Google conteacts as a vCard file and when you send that file to the Touch via BlueTooth it will not ask for confirmation for every entry. Hope that helps!

Joseph 6 years ago

you can actually back up the vcard file. go to gmail and import then choose the vcard file and it imports them. THANK YOU SO MUCH!

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Dana Rock 6 years agofrom Pacific Northwest

@nettie, you can import a cvs file from your microSD that you place there from your computer or you can export your contacts to your microSD and then transfer to the computer. You update by creating a new export or import.

nettie 6 years ago

i'm sorry. how exactly to i use the dcontactbackup program? do i need to create a csv file on my comp? or can i enter my contacts on the phone and export it to my microsd? then how do i update my contacts on the microsd?

mra 6 years ago

I would like to have my windows mail(outlook) contacts exported to phone and phone to windows like motorola phone tools does. Is this possible? also my notepad file has has a a bunch if gibberish in addition to name and number.

mra 6 years ago

Successfully using jcontactbackup. I dont remember how I did it, but all my contacts are now on my PC in a notepad file. I think will be OK. Thanks again, your blog is really making me want to keep this phone, as I just got it and giving it a test run. so far so good.

danx 6 years ago

@danx (myself) The secret is to click on Menu, then Target Dir, instead of typing in the directory. Then navigate to the memory card. Or type in the following: file:///MemoryCard/

danx 6 years ago

I get a java.lang.IllegalArgumentException error when JContactBackup asks for the directory. I tried: MemoryCard, then /MemoryCard, APPS, ., /. I know you use the memory card as the directory, but what is the exact characters you enter to specify the memory card (or a subdirectory of the memory card)?

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Dana Rock 6 years agofrom Pacific Northwest

@boxofrocks, you would use your memory card as the directory. You can import vcard files.

boxofrocks 6 years ago

I installed JContactBackup but I am confused how to import the contacts. It asks me to choose the directory. Which one do I choose?

rocke86 6 years ago

VM is doing a phone swap for me, my phone is not storing the msid correctly but somehow still texts and makes calls. This app is a real time saver for when I get the new phone, thanks.

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Dana Rock 6 years agofrom Pacific Northwest

@DS, Since I still have a subscription to Contact Vault, I thought I would try it out for ya! YES it works! I imported the same list I exported and it doubled all the contact entries. It would be nice if it did not double the contacts and could sync rather than just import blindly, but it is sooooo much better than any other option right now!

Just for kicks, I also deleted all of my contacts after doubling them and imported from my backup file made by JContactBackup, and everything is as it was before.

I'm actually quite impressed!

DS 6 years ago

Dana...one more comment. I successfully imported all my contacts, using the 3.0 vcard file generated by JCContactBackup, into my Google contact list... the most critical fields were populated properly but some "minor" fields were not (job title, company name). All in all a great backup program!

DS 6 years ago

Dans...I left several questions for you yesterday regarding using Google Sync to backup my VM LG Rumor Touch phone address book...the JCContactBackup program appears to be a much better solution (no need for a computer, etc.). I have exported my phone address (as a 3.0 vcard text file) and saved it on my micro SD card but haven't tried to restore (import) the file to my LG Rumor Touch for fear something may go wrong. Have you tested the restore (import) feature yet? Did it successfully restore all contacts with all fields intact? Thanks again for all your expertise!